{"id":1791,"date":"2010-06-29T16:56:30","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T23:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2010-06-29T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T23:56:30","slug":"only-a-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/29\/only-a-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"Only a Republican &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; could courageously admit that the U.S. government is flat outa money, proclaim the need to raise the retirement age to 70, endorse an overhaul of all &#8220;entitlements,&#8221; state that it&#8217;s time to tell the American people &#8220;we&#8217;re broke&#8221; &#8230; and then say &#8230; wait for it &#8230; wait for it &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<font size=\"+2\"><b>BECAUSE WE NEED THE MONEY&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> FOR WAR.<\/b><\/font><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>War. Yeah. Not as in &#8220;defending our shores from foreign invaders.&#8221; But as in propping up inept dictators and their drug-kingpin families and sending computer-driven drones to kill women and kids because our peace-loving Democrat president thinks it&#8217;s a great idea and because we still can&#8217;t find Osama bin Laden nine years later so we&#8217;ll just keep whacking ragheads for the heckofit but when we&#8217;re done they&#8217;ll love us because we brought them the blessings of civilization not to mention finding real-or-illusory minerals we can exploit, but of course strictly for the benefit of the democracy-worshipping, freedom-loving but on the other hand primitive, dirty, barely out of the caves Afghanis who are beating us not because they&#8217;re past masters of eons of guerrilla warfare but only because (just as in Vietnam) we&#8217;re not allowed to kill enough of them to show them how to be truly civilized and grateful to us. <i>That<\/i> war.<\/p>\n<p>John Boehner. Hands-down winner of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/gops-boehner-says-political-rebellion-is-brewing-lets-jack-up-the-retirement-age-to-70-2010-6\" target=\"_blank\">Statist Pig of the Day Award.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, R-partyarchs aren&#8217;t the only pernicious morons with a pulpit. There&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/newsblogs.chicagotribune.com\/clout_st\/2010\/06\/aldermen-to-talk-possible-new-chicago-gun-regulations-today.html\" target=\"_blank\">this babe in Chicago<\/a> talking about ways to outfox the Supreme&#8217;s on yesterday&#8217;s <i>McDonald<\/i> decision. But Mara. Baby. You <i>can&#8217;t<\/i> reduce the number of handguns in Chicago. Remember, you have a handgun ban. There <i>are<\/i> no guns in Chicago! Isn&#8217;t that how they tell us bans are supposed to work? They make all guns go away, right??? So what can you possibly be talking about?<\/p>\n<p>Okay, I know. I&#8217;m not supposed to go on about Stupid Gummint Tricks. But really. Sometimes these people are SOOOOOO amusing. In a <i>Twilight Zonish<\/i>, please-go-away-because-you&#8217;re-making-my-brain-hurt kinda way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>More on morons: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/ambroseevans-pritchard\/100006729\/time-to-shut-down-the-us-federal-reserve\/\" target=\"_blank\">gives a grand, glorious whack<\/a> to one of their number at the Federal Reserve. <\/p>\n<p>That particular moron has taken such a blogospheric beating that I could almost feel sorry for him. Almost. But who can resist Evans-Pritchard when he not only rips that poor snooty economist fella a new one, but asks if it&#8217;s time to get rid of the entire Federal Reserve? (Ron Paul, I think he&#8217;s just one upped you on your &#8220;audit the Fed&#8221; cry.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; could courageously admit that the U.S. government is flat outa money, proclaim the need to raise the retirement age to 70, endorse an overhaul of all &#8220;entitlements,&#8221; state that it&#8217;s time to tell the American people &#8220;we&#8217;re broke&#8221; &#8230; and then say &#8230; wait for it &#8230; wait for it &#8230; BECAUSE WE NEED THE MONEY&#8230; FOR WAR. War. Yeah. Not as in &#8220;defending our shores from foreign invaders.&#8221; But as in propping up inept dictators and their drug-kingpin families and sending computer-driven drones to kill women and kids because our peace-loving Democrat president thinks it&#8217;s a great idea&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/29\/only-a-republican\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Only a Republican &#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-money","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}